On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:20:37 am Tim Johnson wrote: > I have two questions regarding this: > 1)Am I using the correct method to set a class attribute?
Yes. The way to set a class attribute is the same way that you set an attribute on *any* object: some_object.attribute_name = something In your case, some_object is the class object tmpl.tmpl (Unlike some other languages, classes in Python are themselves objects.) > 2)Is there a system configuration that would cause the > AttributeError exception to print out the module name. > (In this cause it was 'kbLib' not 'tmpl'. No. The right way to fix this problem is to fix the error message, not to create a system configuration option. What would you call it? give_useless_error_messages = OFF *wink* The error messages in Python are not part of the language, but implementation details. Unfortunately CPython (the version you are almost certainly using) does have a few lousy error messages. However, in this case it is fairly straightforward to guess what the problem was. The error message you got was: 'module' object has no attribute 'templatepath' On the left hand side, you had the module object tmpl, but you weren't trying to set tmpl.templatepath (module object . attribute name), you were trying tmpl.tmpl.templatepath (module object . class object . attribute name). If the left hand side was the problem, you would probably have got this error instead: 'module' object has no attribute 'tmpl' (There are other errors you could have got, but they're fairly obscure and/or unusual.) -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
